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Events

More than 15 restaurants will offer three-course dinners for 11 nights during Old California Restaurant Row Week. Most dinner menus begin at 5 p.m. Thursday at various restaurants in North County. Visit oldcalrestaurantrow.com for participating restaurants and more information. $10 to $30 per person.

Santa Ysabel Casino will host “Apple Bake Off,” a baking competition with apples as the main ingredient, 1 p.m. Saturday at 25575 Highway 79, Santa Ysabel. Entries accepted from noon to 1 p.m., and contestants must be 21 years old. First place receives $125, second $75 and third $50. Registration:
santaysabelcasino.com
or (760) 787-2201.

Meet Douglas Gayeton, author of "SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town" on Saturday, Oct. 3, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at a book signing at Little Italy Farmers Market, 1701 India Street, San Diego www.littleitalymercato.com Part of a national book tour, Gayeton (who lives in Petaluma) celebrates the Slow Food movement in his personal photographic journey into the heart and culinary delights of Tuscany.

JSix Restaurant offers “Chef's Kitchen Experience,” a day of shopping at local farmers markets for fresh produce and meats for a dinner menu that will be prepared by chef Christian Graves, 10 a.m. Sunday at 616 J St. $120. Reservations: (619) 531-8744.

Kitchen 1540 will host “Cooks Confab October Dinner: Pig!,” a pig-themed dinner where local chefs will be working with a black Duroc pig, from 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday at Kitchen 1540, 1540 Camino Del Mar. Reservations: (858) 793-6460.